Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-06
THE COUNTY BOARD.
THEY RECEIVE THE REPORT OF THE UNION
BRIDGE COMMITTEE,
And Will hold Especial Session Tomorrow 70 Con-
slider 1.-THE Local Health
Board-R0utins.

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was the report made by
The special committee relative to the Union
railroad bridge. The action of the body in
this regard will be found duly recorded
below:
The Board was called to order by Presi-
lent Cruise shortly after ten o'clock, all
the members being present. There were
also at the session a number of gentle
men prominently identified with 'he bridge
project, among them Judge Cochran,
President Logan, of the Chamber of Com
ndrce, Councilmen Buchanan and Farrell,
Captain John McLure, DR.. George Baird,
and Others.
The Board first took up routine matters.
It appeared from the records Of the special
held on Friday last, that the
clerk had been ordered TO pay to d. c.
List, Commissioner of Loans, s., 6S3 70,
being the balance due the Bank of Wheel
ing, and that be be also paid $l2, 500 oD
account OF y per cent. bonds
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Committee reports were read as follows:
The Committee on Courthouse aud
Jail reported bills aggregating $54.65,
which were ordered paid. The COM
mittee recommended that the claim
Of J. & w. Shaw be rejected, and
that the contract for making the rail-
ing in the Clerks Office be awarded to B.
& J. w. Charnock, at their bid OF $40, and
that the contract for furnishing the gate In
the lower corridor OF the Court House
90 to w. II. Muggee, at his bid Of $50.
The commute further recommended that
the bill OF Jailer Nichols be referred to the
Board OF Education, with the request that
they pay it, the county to pay said bills
with the Board OF Education.
recommendations were adopted.
The Committee on Finance reported
bills aggregating $54l IS, which were or
dered paid The Shegitt7s statement show
q balance in his hands Of $49, 3lS.26.
The committee on Poor House and Farm
reported bills aggregating $l,O93 %, Of
which 1897. 05 was chargeable to the county
poor fund. The bills were ordered paid.
The accompanying report of Superintend-
ent Creighton showed 81 inmates of the
poor house, OF which 30 are white males,
% white females, and colored females.
The contract for furnishing a wagon for the
Poor farm was awarded to Henry Stein, at
$40.
The committee on Roads and Bridges
reported new schedule Of tolls for the
Wheeling and Elm Grove road and the
Bethany pike, which was adopted. The
rate is not materially different from that
heretofore in force The committee re-
ported bills aggregating $S63.59, which
were ordered paid. The report WAS &C
by the report Of number Of
local road surveyors
THE UNION BRIDGE.
The report of the special committee on
the Union bridge was then read. The re-
port was as follows:
To the Board Of Commissioners Of Ohio
County:
GENTLEMES-Your committee appoint
ed to confer with Joint committee from
The committee Of the City Council and the
Chamber of Commerce, of Wheeling, in the
matter of securing railroad bridge across
The OaiO river, beg leave to report that
they met on the evening of Dec. ,, with
President Cruise in the chair and w. Z
Buchanan acting as Secretary.
Here follows the formal report and
published in the REGISTER Of
morning, there being no change
whatever. The resolution offered by Mr..
Scott Friday eveping, and which was also
published Saturday morning, was ap.
pended
The following letter was then read:
WHEELING, w. VA, December 5.
To the Honorable Board Of Commissioners:
GENTLEMEN Assuming that the mat
ter of the proposed subscription to the
capital stock of the Wheeling and Harris
bnrg Railroad Company will come before
you on the report of the committee which
has had it under consideration, beg, by
reference thereto, and without repeating
the matter therein, that you will treat the
application by the Company l represent,
for the subscription asked, as addressed to
your honorable body, and that you may
take such action thereon as you may seem
a duty, at as early day as reasonably
30 that if the action should be
favorable, and the subscription probable,
we may in some degree anticipate the
fact and press other matters i'll other
quarters with a view to the earliest posi-
BILE moment possible.
To my former letter beg leave to add,
if il needs to be made clearer, that the
bridge and terminus are to be one proper
~ OF one and the same company, aud that
the stock you may receive for the termi-
nails you may aid in furnishing, will be
stock in the bridge also, which foreign
capital is to build.
1t may also be stipulated that if the
structures named shall not be completed
within time to be agreed upon as reason
able, the county may be at liberty to re-
tire from its obligation.
For the words Nineteenth street" in
the proposition l desire to substitute the
words Twentieth street"
K. II. COCHRAN.
Mr.. Speidel said he supposed the only
action proper at this time would be the
and filing Of the report and let
ter. This seemed proper, and this action
was taken.
Mr.. Stein then offered the following:
Res0lred, That the Board OF Commission
ers at once give due notice of an election
for the ratification or rejection Of the pro-
posed loan.
Mr.. Speidel thought this resolution was
premature. He said there was some things
yet 10 be considered before the matter
could be presented to the voters OF the
county. he also thought it would be en-
inently proper to hear from the Chamber
of Commerce and the City Council. He
offered the following rs a substitute:
ResOlred, That the Board of Commits
sioners meet in special session on Wednes-
day morning, TO take action upon the
bridge matter, aud also that committee
Of three, of whom the President shall be
one, be appointed to confer with the Prose-
cutting attorney relating TO the ACCESSIBILITY
of employing additional legal talent to
guard the interests of the County in the
matter.
After some discussion, Mr.. Stein with.
drew his resolution, and Mr.. Speidel's res
olution was then adopted. The Chair ap-